People who took Pfizer's antiviral treatment Paxlovid shortly after infection saw a 26% lower risk of long Covid compared with those who didn't, the study said.
, co-medical director at the University of Washington's post-COVID-19 Rehabilitation and Recovery Clinic. She called the new study "very exciting and promising" because it's the first to show an association between Paxlovid and a decreased risk of long Covid., a board-certified internal medicine physician who sees patients at the University of Washington Medicine Primary Care, added that prescribers can use the study results to encourage the uptake of Paxlovid.
But Chopra acknowledged that the study was observational, meaning the researchers observed participants who did or didn't take Paxlovid without intervening. It wasn't a randomized controlled study – considered the for clinical research – where researchers intervene and can better examine a potential cause-and-effect relationship between receiving a drug like Paxlovid and an outcome.She said the study's other limitation is it identified participants using health-care databases of the Department of Veteran Affairs. The researchers need to conduct studies in other patient populations outside of that health-care system, according to Becker.
The study comes as Paxlovid inches closer to winning full approval from the Food and Drug Administration, with the agency's advisors votingMore than 12 million courses of Paxlovid have been delivered to pharmacies across the U.S., according to the latest
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